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Knoch boys basketball coach steps down after state playoff season
Knoch boys basketball coach Alan Bauman has resigned after leading the Knights to the state playoffs this winter. “It’s a decision we thought was the best thing for both our family and Knoch basketball,” said Bauman, who coached the team for five seasons. “I enjoyed my time there greatly. The...
Aliquippa to host ‘CJ2K vs. World’ charity basketball games Saturday
Aliquippa will host a charity basketball event Saturday featuring high school players from around Western Pennsylvania. The CJ2K vs. World “Bigger than Basketball” Charity Classic includes a girls game at 3 p.m. and a boys game at 4:30 p.m. The rosters contain both high school seniors and underclassmen. Tickets are...
Peters Township’s Natalie Wetzel named 2025 Trib HSSN Girls Basketball Player of the Year
Peters Township’s Natalie Wetzel averaged nearly a double-double this winter for a WPIAL champion, showing off basketball skills that filled stat sheets. What might’ve gone less noticed was her senior leadership on the championship team that started two freshmen. But she said this was an easy group for the team...
Neighborhood Academy’s Courtney Wallace named 2025 Trib HSSN Boys Basketball Player of the Year
The way Courtney Wallace played this winter was beyond words, said Neighborhood Academy coach Jordan Marks, adding simply: “You’ve got to see it to believe it.” Lots of folks did, thanks to the school’s postseason run to WPIAL and PIAA Class A titles. The Yale-bound senior posted a double-double at...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for April 3, 2025
High schools Baseball Thursday’s results Class 6A Section 1 Butler 4, North Hills 3 Seneca Valley 3, Central Catholic 1 Section 2 Canon-McMillan 17, Woodland Hills 1 Canon-McMillan 17, Woodland Hills 0 Class 4A Section 3 Derry at Valley, ppd. Class 3A Section 1 Riverside at Ellwood City, ppd. Section...
High school roundup for April 3, 2025: Quaker Valley slams rival Sewickley Academy
Winning pitcher Nolan Wagoner singled, doubled twice and drove in four runs and Todd Kagle hit a grand slam to lead Quaker Valley to a 13-2 win over rival Sewickley Academy in nonsection baseball Thursday. Ryan Finamore and Oscar Roig each went 3 for 3 with a double for the...
New football coach T.J. Wiley believes he has found perfect fit at Knoch
Knoch ended last football season with fewer than 30 players, an issue new coach T.J. Wiley wants to tackle right away. He‘ll start when he meets the team next week. “The very first thing I’m going say is, ‘I want you to look around and think about people that should...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on April 4, 2025: Boys lacrosse powers to square off
With the baseball and softball schedule in jeopardy with wet weather expected Friday, the spotlight shines on district lacrosse. Last year, Mars won the boys lacrosse Section 2-2A regular season crown by one game over Hampton after defeating the Talbots in their only regular season meeting. The two then clashed...
Derry track team focuses on WPIAL individual championships
Derry track and field coach Mark Curcio was excited for his girls squad coming into the season. But that joy turned to disappointment after the PIAA released the 2025-26 enrollment perimeters, which moved Derry from Class 2A to Class 3A. “Four girls and 10 boys moved us up,” Curcio said....
Knoch baseball team relies on deep pitching staff
It wasn’t until the seventh inning when Zane Pacek started to hear whispers in the dugout. “I was like, ‘Come on guys, now you’ve jinxed it,’ ” Pacek said. Despite his teammates committing the cardinal sin of mentioning the opposing team having no hits, the 7-foot-1 junior pitcher threw a...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for April 2, 2025
High schools Baseball Wednesday’s schedule Class 6A Section 2 Canon-McMillan at Woodland Hills, ppd. Hempfield 5, Norwin 2 Class 5A Section 1 Franklin Regional 8, Kiski Area 0 Section 2 South Fayette 8, Chartiers Valley 3 Section 3 Shaler 8, Allderdice 1 Section 4 Thomas Jefferson 10, Baldwin 5 Class...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on April 3, 2025: Class 6A section series wrap up
Three Class 6A three-game section series will conclude Thursday with a rubber game and two teams going for sweeps. Second place will be on the line in Section 1-6A when Seneca Valley (1-1, 3-3) hosts Central Catholic (1-1, 4-1) at 4 p.m. The Vikings won Monday at SV, 7-6, while...
2025 Trib HSSN Terrific 10 Boys Basketball All-Stars
Terrific 10 Rowan Carmichael Avonworth 6-0, senior, guard Carmichael averaged 31.9 points per game as this season’s top scorer in the WPIAL. He was a 60% shooter overall and shot 40% from 3-point range, where he made 103. He also averaged 6.5 rebounds, 4 assists and 2.5 steals for WPIAL...
2025 Trib HSSN Terrific 10 Girls Basketball All-Stars
Terrific 10 Aubree Hupp Blackhawk 5-10, junior, forward Hupp averaged a double-double with 21.5 points and 11.4 rebounds for WPIAL Class 4A runner-up Blackhawk (25-4). Her 332 rebounds broke a school record. She also averaged 3.1 steals, 2.3 assists and 2.1 blocks per game. Hupp scored a game-high 20 points...
Trib HSSN Pennsylvania high school softball rankings for April 2, 2025
There was little movement in the weekly Trib HSSN state softball rankings as we transition from March softball to April softball. Each classification saw one change of teams among the Top 5 with the exception of Class 3A, which despite one slide, all five teams remain ranked. The five teams...
Trib HSSN Pennsylvania high school baseball rankings for April 2, 2025
Going from March to April in high school baseball across the state provided a little bit of change in two classifications but status quo for the most part in the other four classes. Both Class 3A and 2A saw a fresh coat of paint as both Top 5s saw the...
High school roundup for April 2, 2025: Seneca Valley’s Lexie Hames fans 15, homers to beat North Allegheny
Winning pitcher Lexie Hames allowed two hits, struck out 15 and homered to lead Seneca Valley to a 3-1 victory over North Allegheny in Section 1-6A softball Wednesday. Olivia Herrem doubled and drove in two runs for the Raiders (5-0, 3-0). McKenna Rowlands hit a double for the Tigers (3-4,...
Hempfield jumps on Norwin to take 2 of 3 in Class 6A series
On Tuesday, Norwin used an aggressive approach on offense to defeat Hempfield in Game 2 of their three-game WPIAL Section 2-6A baseball series. On Wednesday, it was Hempfield that was the more aggressive team. The Spartans defeated the Knights, 5-2, to take two of three in the series. Hempfield won...
Foes become friends as area seniors team up for Cager Classic basketball all-star games
Carson Heinle and his Kiski Area senior teammates, Colin Keller and Jacob Musselman, went up against Armstrong’s Jacob Szep and Plum’s Will Beckner twice in Section 2-5A battles during the 2024-25 regular season. The Cavaliers got the better of the River Hawks and the Mustangs twice en route to winning...
Fleet-footed Toryn Fulton, Franklin Regional run past Kiski Area
Grizzled veteran coach Jim Armstrong might have said it best. “Walking her is like giving her a triple,” Franklin Regional softball’s head man said of Toryn Fulton, his star 6-foot shortstop. The long-legged South Florida commit put on a baserunning clinic in Wednesday’s 12-2, run-rule victory over visiting Kiski Area...
Westmoreland softball notebook: Greensburg Central Catholic dealing with small roster
Greensburg Central Catholic is playing only section games this season as it deals with low roster numbers. Second-year coach Chelsey Frock has had trouble maintaining a dozen girls on the roster. The Centurions had not played a game through the weekend, having to cancel nonsection matchups with Chartiers-Houston, Seton LaSalle...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for April 1, 2025
High schools Baseball Tuesday’s results Class 6A Section 1 Butler 8, North Hills 7 Seneca Valley 8, Central Catholic 4 Section 2 Norwin 12, Hempfield 2 Canon-McMillan 11, Woodland Hills 0 Class 5A Section 1 Franklin Regional 3, Kiski Area 1 Latrobe 20, Penn Hills 1 Penn-Trafford 5, Armstrong 3...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on April 2, 2025: Class 2A softball powers to collide
We hit midweek with a busy day on the softball diamonds (weather permitting) around the district. Last season, Neshannock edged out Laurel to win the Section 1-2A softball title by sweeping the head-to-head regular season meetings. It looked like the two Lawrence County rivals would collide for a third time...
Trib 10: Top teams in power rankings flex muscles in 1st month of season
The mercury might be up and down, but the Trib 10 has remained consistent as we move into April. Through a second week of section series in for most district baseball teams, the power rankings barely changed with one flip-flop at the bottom. On the softball side, defending 5A champion...
Trib HSSN Head of the Class: 2025 WPIAL girls basketball players of the year
There were a lot of players who enjoyed incredible success on the court this season in what became another large step forward for district girls basketball this winter. Monessen great Gina Naccarato’s all-time district career scoring record was in jeopardy, but survived by 245 points as Iyanna Wade of Clairton...
